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Copyrighted Material Index a-theory of time, 113 n. 13, 114, 115, 116, 118 goods of the afterlife, 473–4 n. 17, 121, 124, 183–6, 187, 191 moral argument, xii abstract objects, 11, 107, 179, 188 n. 94, 193 mystical perception and sense perception, actual infi nite; see also, kalam cosmological 273, 502–3, 504, 512, 520, 530, 531 argument defense treatment of evil, xii, 473–5 dichotomy paradoxes, 119 Anscombe, Elizabeth, xii, 344, 353, 361–2; see existence of, 106–15 also, argument from reason formalist defenders of, 105, 183 ambiguity of Lewis’ sense of “explanation”, formation of, 117–24 357–8 impossibility of, 103–6 explanation-types, 356–8, 376 infi nite regress of events and, 115–16 irrational vs. nonrational causes, 353–4 infi nite series, 118, 119, 120, 121, 145 n. 44, paradigm case argument, 354–6 195, 331 unlimited explanatory compatibilism, infi nite set, 104, 105, 109, 111, 112, 115, 120, 358–60 125, 250 Anselm, St., 1, 16, 553 see also ontological modality of, 105–6, 293 argument potential infi nite, 103–4, 112, 113, 114, 115, cosmological argument and, 101 116, 118, 144 modal argument, 572–4, 580–1 successive addition and, 117–20, 124–5 Monologion and Proslogium, 554, 558 Stadium paradoxes, 119 ontological argument, 554–65 temporal regress of events, 101, 103, 106, Anthropic Principle objection, 276–7; see also 115, 116, 117 teleological argument Tristram Shandy, 120–1 apologetics, 18, 394, 606, 627, 639; see also Zeno’s paradoxes, 119, 120, 124, 144 natural theology; worldview Adams, Marilyn, xii, 468,COPYRIGHTED 485 Aquinas, Thomas; MATERIAL see also Anselm; natural Adams, Robert, xi, xii, 295–6, 414, 479 theology agnosticism, 20–1, 28, 33, 91, 250–1, 336–7, cosmological argument and, 101, 102 501, 597, 640, 648, 650; see also theism. dualism, 301, 315 n. 5, 383 al-Ghazali, 101–2; see also kalam cosmological essence and existence, 274 argument Five Ways, 25 Albert, David, 222 Gap Problem, 93–4, 98 Albrecht, Andreas, 217 n. 13, 265–71 infi nite regress of past events, 115, 116, Alston, William; see also moral argument, 331–2 argument from religious experience scholastic axiom, 94–5 doxastic practice approach to epistemology, simplicity and perfection, 93–6 502, 528–9 The Third Way of, 582–5 664 INDEX argument from design, see teleological Calvinism and, 457 argument from the fi ne-tuning of the contemporary philosophical orthodoxy and, universe 449–52 arguments for the existence of God, xi, 1, 91; defenders vs. theodicists, 453–5, 456, 457, see also natural theology 470–6, 478, 484, 485, 492, 493, 494 argument from evolutionary naturalism divine intervention, 480–1 (AEN), 394 Euthyphro dilemma, 460, 462 argument from religious experience, 502 evil intended vs. evil foreseen, 476–8 begs the question and the ontological evidential vs. logical problem, 453–4, 472, argument, 561–2 481, 650 cumulative, vii, 19, 283, 408, 498, 510, 595, free will, and it as a defense, 451–2, 455–6, 617–20, 630–7 457, 465, 469–70, 473, 474, 476–7, 478–9, fi ne-tuning and, 202, 209 482, 483, 484, 485, 492, 493, 650 metamodel for philosophical arguments, 346 God’s permission of evil, 455, 457, 469, 470 moral argument, 392 n. 12, 472, 474, 475, 477 n. 18, 478 n. 19, parodies, 563–5 483 n. 25, 484, 486, 494 argument from consciousness (AC), xi, 283, hell, 470 n. 12, 471, 475, 487–9 294, 295–6, 297, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303, horrendous vs. nonhorrendous evil, 456, 457, 304, 307, 308–9, 315, 317, 318, 329–30, 467–8, 482, 485–9 333–4, 336, 337, 339; see also, causation, immortality, 463, 464–5, 473 n. 17 consciousness, dualism, materialism, irreducible teleological explanation and, 452 naturalism, physicalism life plan, 465, 466–7, 479, 480, 488–9 agent causation (AGC), 285, 312–13, 314–18, materialism and, 450–1, 452 319, 324–7, 333 middle knowledge and evil, 478 n. 19 arguments against consciousness as moral evil, 455–8, 469–84, 487, 490, 492–3, emergent, 322–4 577 causal necessitation, 293, 300, 302–8, 314, “mysterian” view of consciousness compared 318, 319–20, 321–2, 324, 328, 335 to, 374–5 deductive form of, 295–9 natural evil, 255, 484, 486, 487 emergent properties, 284, 285, 286, 287, pain and pleasure, 449–51, 452, 453, 455, 288–90, 292–4, 297, 299, 300, 301, 302, 458–9, 462, 464, 468–9, 471, 472 n. 15, 303, 304, 305, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 475–6, 478 n. 19, 479, 481, 484, 488, 490, 313, 314, 315–24, 325, 335, 340 491, 492–3, 494 emergent necessitation and contingency, Plantinga’s contribution to, 453 n. 2–4, 319–22 455–7, 489–92, 470, 472–3, 478 n. 19, 484, falsifi cation of naturalism, 303–4, 452 489–92 irreducible consciousness, 282, 301, 302, 324, practical problem, 453 435, 436–7, 443, 449, 452 problem of pain, 449–50 Mackie on Locke’s thinking matter, 308–9, 315 purpose of life and perfect happiness, xii, mysterian “naturalism”, 328–30, 336–9, 374, 392, 455, 457–84, 486–94 387, 437–8 retributive justice, 469, 488–9 panpsychism, xi, 298, 315, 316, 318–19, 328, self-forming choice (SFC), 465–7, 469, 472, 329, 337 473, 475, 479–80, 481, 482, 483 n. 24, 25, prephilosophical intuitions, 15, 319, 322, 484, 486–7, 489 324–8 sin or vice, 457 n. 7, 465, 472, 484, 489, Searle’s contingent correlations and 490–2 biological naturalism, 299–300, 301–2, theoretical problem of, 453 304, 307, 309–11 via negativa theodicy, 470–1 theistic dualism and, 329, 330–6, 337 argument from miracles for the resurrection of theory acceptance and, 294–5 Jesus of Nazareth, see also argument from argument from evil, 346, 351, 352, 374, 375, religious experience; Jesus of Nazareth 453, 454, 472, 484; see also moral argument Christianity and, 593–5, 616, 618, 635, animal pain, 492–4 644–8, 650, 658 INDEX 665 collective force of the salient facts (W, D, P), inadequacy objection, 350, 375, 386–8 630–7 indeterminacy, 366, 368–9, 372, 374, 379, 401 concept of a miracle, 596, 637–8 intentionality and, 344, 345, 350, 356, conspiracy hypothesis, 619, 622, 623 363–74, 377, 378, 379, 385, 386, 387 conversion of Paul (P), 595, 615–16, 619, irrational vs. nonrational causes, 353–4 628–30, 631 logicoconceptual gap, 383, 385 death and burial of Jesus of Nazareth, 604–6, mental causation, xii, 344, 351, 363, 373, 611, 619, 621 375–9 deists and, 593, 604, 651, 653 mystery and materialism, 374–5, 387 eyewitness testimony of women at the tomb natural theology and, 347, 384 (W), 595, 597, 606, 607–8, 619, 620–2, paradigm case argument, 354–5, 356 623, 632, 638, 643 problem of interaction, 373, 382–3 goal and scope of, 594–6, 658–9 psychological relevance of logical laws, xii, hallucination hypothesis, 619, 620, 621, 344, 363, 379–81 625–6, 627, 628, 629–30, 636–7, 643 rational inference, 351–2, 353–4, 355–6, Hume against miracles, xiii, 637–44, 651–8 357–8, 360–1, 363, 363, 364–5, 368, 374, independence assumption of each line of 375, 376, 377, 378, 379, 386 argument, 631–7 reasons-explanations vs. causal explanations, martyrdom, 610, 611–15, 624, 629, 634–5 357, 358–9, 360, 376 historical argument and apologetics, 593, summary of the nature and scope, 344–6, 597, 598, 604, 627, 631, 640 n. 38, 639–40, 362–3 644–6, 648 n. 41, 650–2 transcendental impact of, xii, 344, 351, 356 objective vision theory, 626–8, 635, 637 argument from religious experience (ARE), xii, Plantinga’s Principle of Dwindling 11, 498, 501–3, 507, 509, 510, 512, 525, Probabilities (PDP), 644–50 534, 536 n. 17, 537, 547, 548–9; see also probabilistic cumulative case arguments and, argument from miracles; God; Jesus of 617–20, 630–7 Nazareth resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, 594–6, 607, basic source of justifi cation (BSJ), 508–9, 617–20, 622, 623, 626, 628, 630, 631, 524, 533, 534, 535 632–7, 641–3 confl icting claims objection, 536–8, 539–42, testimony and transformation of disciples 547 (D), 608–15, 619–20, 622–8, 630–3, 635, contributes to cumulative case, xiii, 498 641, 645, 646 n. 39 computer skeptical hypothesis (CSH), 531–2 textual assumption about historical Jesus, critical trust approach (CTA), 508, 509, 515 597–604, 622, 630 n. 7, 524–8, 531, 541, 543, 546, 547, 548 theft hypothesis, 622–3 description of, 498 theism and, 593–5, 645–8, 649, 650, 659 disanalogy objection, 534–6, 547 argument from reason, xi–xii, 344, 346, 347–8, evidence confi rmation and sensory 351, 352–3, 354–6, 358, 360, 361–3, 374, perception, 498 n. 2, 524 375, 381, 386; see also argument from gullibilism objection, 548 consciousness; materialism; naturalism impartiality argument and, 528, 529–34, 548 Anscombe’s objections, xii, 344, 353–8, impossibility of individuation objection, 547 359–60, 361–2, 376 intracoherence, 511–12, 523–4, 527, 540, argument from computers objection, 381–2 543–54 armchair science objection, 383–4 logical gap objection, 503–4, 547 Barefoot’s four corollary argument, 378–9 mystical experience, 513, 519, 538–9, 540–3, best explanatory argument and, 355 546 Bayesian model and, 346 naturalistic explanation objection, 548 error theories, 350–1, 396 no criteria/uncheckability objection, 547–8 explanation-types and, 356–7 personal vs. impersonal ultimate reality, general problem of materialism, 344, 348–50 542–3 God of the gaps objection, 384–6 Principle of Credulity (PC), 502–3, 507–8, history of, 352–62 509 666 INDEX argument from religious experience (cont’d) Bayesian; see also explanation Principle of Critical Trust (PCT), 507, 508, Explanation, 346, 617 509–12, 525, 526, 527, 528–34, 536, 538, Factors, 618, 619 541, 548 Theorem, 618 privacy objection, 504, 506–7, 547 Bayne, Peter, 654 religious experience (RE), 498–503, 503, 505, Bentham, Jeremy; see also moral argument 506, 507, 509, 512–15, 534, 535, 536, hedonist theory of value, 421 537–8, 540, 541, 545, 548 Mill and, 423–4, 425, 432 superreliability requirement, 524, 548 Principle of Utility, 422 Swinburne’s PC, PCT, RE and ARE, 502–3, rights, 421–2, 432 507–9, 512, 528, 530 Bergmann, Michael; see also argument from theistic experience of God (TE), xiii, 498, evil; moral argument 499–501, 505, 508, 510, 512, 513, 515, “defender” response to problem of evil, 470 516–18, 519–24, 547–8 n.
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